This a simple client script to help make daypi calls in python. The script helps you create the daypi signature, contruct the daypi URL, make the api call and decode the response. This script gets the response in json format, so you will need to install python-cjson on your machine.

from urllib import urlencode, quote
from urllib2 import urlopen
import md5, types, cjson

class DaylifeAPI:

	auth_keys = ['topic_id',
				 'article_id',
				 'story_id',
				 'image_id',
				 'quote_id',
				 'source_id',
				 'set_id',
				 'query',
				 'name'
				 ]

	def __init__(self, accesskey, sharedsecret, server='freeapi.daylife.com', version='4.8'):
		self.accesskey = accesskey
		self.sharedsecret = sharedsecret
		self.server = server
		self.version = version

	def __getattr__(self, name):
		if name.startswith('_'):
			raise AttributeError, name
		else:
			def caller(**params):
				url = self.construct_api_url(name, params)
				print url
				return self.call_url(url)
			return caller
			
	def construct_api_url(self, method_name, params):
		params['accesskey'] = self.accesskey
		auth_key, auth_value = self.parse_auth_key(params)
		if not auth_value:
			raise ValueError("No core input could be identified")
		params['signature'] = self.calc_signature(auth_value)
		url = 'http://' \
					+ str(self.server) \
					+ '/jsonrest/publicapi/' \
					+ str(self.version) \
					+ '/' + method_name \
					+ '?' \
					+ self.build_query_string(params)
		return url

	def build_query_string(self, params):
		qlist = []
		for k,v in params.iteritems():
			if type(v) is types.ListType:
				# list of ids
				qlist.extend( ['%s=%s'%(k,quote(str(x))) for x in v] )
			else:
				# keys don't need quoting
				qlist.append('%s=%s'%(k,quote(str(v))))    
		return '&'.join(qlist)

	def call_url(self, url):
		print str(url)
		x = urlopen(url)
		return cjson.decode(x.read())

	def calc_signature(self, query):
		m = md5.new()
		m.update(self.accesskey)
		m.update(self.sharedsecret)
		m.update(query)
		return m.hexdigest()

	def parse_auth_key(self, params):
		for x in self.auth_keys:
			if x in params:
				value = params[x]
				if type(value) is types.ListType:
					value = value[:]
					value.sort()
					value_str = ''
					for x in value:
						value_str = value_str + str(x)
					value = value_str
				print value
				return (x, value)
		return (None,None)


def test_daylifeapi():
	import time
	from pprint import pprint
	api = DaylifeAPI("8befa1cf0a7c0291613242235638a662",
					 "2e548ef751397c653752057adcff0c9f",
					 "freeapi.daylife.com")

	#getting articles related to jeses in the last 7 days sorted by date
	ret = api.search_getRelatedArticles(query='jesus',
										start_time=long(time.time() - (7*86400)),
										end_time=long(time.time()),
										sort="date")
	print pprint(ret)
	
if __name__ == "__main__":
	test_daylifeapi()

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